Tag: Iceland

Here’s a few extra photos of other things we got to see in Southern Iceland besides the glaciers. No huge story on these, though they were cool to see! Kirkjugolf, called the church floor, though there is no evidence this was actually a floor of a church… rather just a natural phenomena of the basalt…

Day 4: Even more off the beaten path, we decided to check out Lake Graenavatn, an explosion crater that has green water due to minerals that reside in the waterbed. What I neglected to realize for this hike was: 1: It was down a 4×4 only road that was at least an hour’s drive (this…

Day 3 – The western peninsula of Snaefellsness was definitely our most active day of the trip. We visited a variety of sights in the almost 6 hours of pure drive time to get up to the peninsula and back to Reykjavik. Snaefellsness is full of seaside fishing towns, volcanoes, craters, caves, beaches, cliffs and…

While planning our trip to Iceland there was a lot of information about renting a car in Iceland that I could find, however much of it was conflicting and after actually doing it I believe that a few important pieces were left out. Renting a car in Iceland should by no means be intimidating, and…

After traveling for 17 hours with little sleep and 2 layovers, we landed in Reykjavik, a bit jet-lagged and hungry.. only to be handed a crappy 4×4 rental with a manual transmission. Note: I used to know how to drive stick but it’s been many years since I’ve tried so I was happy Kyle took…

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